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Good Vibrations (California)

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Good Vibrations (California) Reviews

2.7

5% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

7% positive business outlook

Good Vibrations (California) has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 20 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Good Vibrations (California) employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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20 reviews
2.0
20 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you like being busy and helping customers, this job is great. Great amount to learn and teach others. Nice store and products (for the most part).

Cons

Management, starting from the Store Manager and all the way up, are incredibly underqualified and have serious issues with communication. Very highschool like, no positive feedback, inappropriate with anger problems. Pay is bad, no room to move up though they tell you there is. They will jerk you around and lie to you about your performance. They will never admit fault, prepare to always be in the wrong. Expect to feel like you are far more qualified than the people above you.

2.0
12 Feb 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Sex positive work environment Freedom to actualize your ideas Self directed work

Cons

Lack of organization and strong leadership Leadership makes knee-jerk decisions that do not benefit the company Employees do not feel appreciated. Employees think they do not have skills, are not hireable, and that GV is the best job they will get. All employees I worked with are incredible assets with technical skills but receive little feedback about their value. Salaries are not comparable for Bay Area Secrecy about operations Incompetent HR that is the puppet of leadership Little to no strategic planning or use of consumer insights - more of a "catch up" philosophy to meet industry shifts while riding on the coat tails of their name Vacation/sick time is minimal and does not approach Bay Area standards Surveillance culture that questions employees' whereabouts constantly Application of retail policies on technical and marketing staff with entirely different work scopes

3.0
19 July 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most of your coworkers will be friendly and actually care about the work they're doing. You get to have a lot of awesome interactions with customers as a salesperson and, if you care to actually learn your stuff, as an educator, which is a unique opportunity. If you like the wares sold here, it can be a pretty cool job because you'll get some free stuff of course. Pay is more than some retail jobs. A couple departments at the main office are pretty informative and open to new ideas-the buyer and PR usually. It can look pretty good on a resume if you're looking to get into Sex Ed education or any other work having to do with sexuality or sensitive issues...you can teach the free in-store classes after being there for a while, which can be good practice for future jobs involving instruction.

Cons

They're still trying to present as an ethical business like it used to try to be when it was a co-op, but this is not the case. To "stay competitive," it's becoming exactly like all the other newer adult boutiques. It has become more and more about making money, less about doing good. The CEO is really not a nice guy, but sometimes he acts like one. More and more silly things are being imposed...basically they want this to be like the Macy's of adult stores or something. Which might make it successful but most people I worked with were very disappointed as it became clear that Good Vibes was eagerly headed toward bland. Mission aside, there's practically no room to advance in position or pay. Can't hate on them too much here, because it's never implied that you could ever make more than $12.25 an hour. Yes, in San Francisco. It's retail so, not surprisingly, most of the managers won't put out a schedule in advance and won't give you a set schedule. You don't have promised hours. Sometimes managers encourage you to "go above and beyond" in ways that are uncomfortable and not actually required...they can forget that some of this is sensitive stuff, and inappropriate. Worst of all is the realization that most people feel like they're on a sinking ship because while GV is trying to become uniform and chain-like, there is no positivity coming from their main offices. Just constant correction, new instruction, frequent updates that employees quit or were fired, etc. So yeah, just mostly regular retail that fronts like it isn't. But I guess that's most retail!

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